. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 3P8 A Defcfiption of the Book IV. I Chap. m !: â M'. i:i;^ Barbot. Their language differs in nothing, from *^V^^ ot"Ga/'o»,only ftrangers have this acivan- ^'"'â ^'"'â f' , that tiie cape Lope Blacks can Tpiak a broiicn Porluguefe, as having fiequcnt com- merce with many lea-farin
. A Collection of voyages and travels [microform] : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English : in six volumes with a general preface giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 3P8 A Defcfiption of the Book IV. I Chap. m !: â M'. i:i;^ Barbot. Their language differs in nothing, from *^V^^ ot"Ga/'o»,only ftrangers have this acivan- ^'"'â ^'"'â f' , that tiie cape Lope Blacks can Tpiak a broiicn Porluguefe, as having fiequcnt com- merce with many lea-faring men of that ,nation, who relort thither, from Brazil, Jiigr/!.t, ami the Portugueje iflands ot the Bii^bt, to clean, or get provifions, or trade, as being a more convenient place, and of mucii lefs expence than at St. Tome, or i'rwiv'a , their own colonies. How- ever, bccaule every northern/'-«ro/t',j« that trades there cannot fpeak PortngiifJ?, I let down here fome few of the moil neceflary words and phrafes ot their language. Si- , to buy ; Mamimomaeat!, clc-phant's teeth â¢, Pttlii^^o, iron-bar; AIonc'/o, linen clotl) 1 'J:ig>ui, a knife â¢, Peiollo, gun-pow- der ; //y';i;£., afliip-, £«/;>«/!!, wrought pew- Bioqiio, bad iixirti/ic iitat. Fino, good 0 ucro, to ter i aik i 'Jt'u^^o, little â¢, ^:^iendo, go away ; Aknu, lit me fee; Biaka, let come; Coria, to eat ; MoiuLUo, a Hollander ; Mccki-ndo Finn, a line woman ; , large or great ; S.'iVi''O, the king ; Coqurtle, power i Cal:r!i!,\ for Maliguc'.'.e, or (.ititnea pepper. 'lis hardly to be believed what a mulii- of blue parrots , forlometimes they lly over the country in fuch numbers, as really feem to darken the air: they Ibar not extraordinary high, and may be enfily fliot, being good meat ftew'd or boil'd, cipccially the young ones ; which, with the bullocks flefli, fo common in thofe , is an extraordinary help to failors. The latter feed i
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